I fancy you give me credit for being a more systematic sort of cove than I really am in the matter of limits of significance. What would actually happen would be that I should make out Pt (normal) and say to myself that would be about 50:1; pretty good but as it may not be normal we'd best not be too certain, or 100:1; even allowing that it may not be normal it seems good enough and whether one would be content with that or would require further work would depend on the importance of the conclusion and the difficulty of obtaining suitable experience.
To tell you the truth, I've never weighed myself. When somebody asks me my statistics or whatever I honestly don't know.
It was one thing to have guessed it, another to have had that guess confirmed beyond possibility of refutation.
Those who refused to respond to new stimulus would perish. Adapt or perish.
The study of eugenics had its beginning in Germany, sometime after the mid-19th century mark, stimulated by volkish concerns for Aryan racial purity. Rudolf Virchow, pathologist and politician, began a study of national ethnic statistics in 1871, convinced that the majority of Germans would prove to be of relatively pure Nordic descent. The results of his studies proved otherwise. According to Virchow, the obvious solution was to set about Nordicizing the debased German stock.
Its important not to focus so much on the statistics, but [on people's] perceptions.
Practical sciences proceed by building up; theoretical science by resolving into components.
The religion of one seems madness unto another.
You should treat as many patients as possible with the new drugs while they still have the power to heal.
Historians will consider this a dark age. Science historians can read Galileos technical correspondence from the 1590s but not Marvin Minskys from the 1960s.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, before NAFTA went into effect, there were 285,000 auto workers in Michigan. Today, that number is only 160,000.
Do not trust any statistics you did not fake yourself.
How much of what we call 'reality' is actually out there or rather within our own head?
The statistics show that when you've done something for so long, it'll either be, yeah, you're slowing down, or someone's doing it better. But physically, I feel great. More than that, it's mental and spiritual.
You know, I think I'm the worst player to talk to about statistics.
In the same way that I tend to make up my mind about people within thirty seconds of meeting them, I also make up my mind about whether a business proposal excites me within about thirty seconds of looking at it. I rely far more on gut instinct than researching huge amounts of statistics.
A marveilous newtrality have these things mathematicall, and also a strange participation between things supernaturall and things naturall.
Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than the exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise.
That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts. . . Seek simplicity and distrust it.